Speed dial to post to url. Part of my Google voice 2014 workaround.
danielbliss:
I believe all of this can be done by registering sipsorcery.com and using their GV dial plan. Does Sip Sorcery no longer offer free accounts (it's been awhile since I used them)?
gderf:
SipSorcery no longer offers free accounts.
danielbliss:
Yep, was just checking that out myself. Bummer. I was hoping to jump back on my old account there now that the free Obi-GV outbound solution is about to expire.
giqcass:
Quote from: danielbliss on April 17, 2014, 05:49:34 pm
Yep, was just checking that out myself. Bummer. I was hoping to jump back on my old account there now that the free Obi-GV outbound solution is about to expire.
Why can't you use your old free account? I stopped using mine for at least a year. Probably longer. I only had to log in and update my dial plan to get it working again.
danielbliss:
Quote from: giqcass on April 19, 2014, 12:18:02 pm
Quote from: danielbliss on April 17, 2014, 05:49:34 pm
Yep, was just checking that out myself. Bummer. I was hoping to jump back on my old account there now that the free Obi-GV outbound solution is about to expire.
Why can't you use your old free account? I stopped using mine for at least a year. Probably longer. I only had to log in and update my dial plan to get it working again.
Before Aaron created paid plans, I donated a chunk of money to him because I enjoyed using his service and benefited from it. A few months later, he came out with the paid plans and, because I had donated more than he was asking, he offered to freely promote my account to premium for 2 years. I accepted. A year later, I bought my Obi, unplugged my Linksys PAP2T and never signed back into SipSorcery: I no longer needed to use the dial plans.
Fast forward to now and the ending of GV's XMPP service. I tried to log in to SipSorcery and was greeted by a message informing me that I could not log in until I paid some money (because the end of my premium period credit had expired). I wrote an email to Aaron stating that I only needed a free account now, and asked if he preferred that I simply create a new account or have my existing account downgraded. That was before I figured out that he was no longer offering free accounts as an option.
I never heard back from him. I don't blame him. I'm sure he's not getting rich off of his service: he's probably not even breaking even. I suppose I could plead the case to him that if I had simply said "never mind, I'll just keep a free account" a few years ago, I'd still have my account... but I know from his forums that he's had to deal with quite a few whiners and I really don't want to add my voice to that chorus.
Bottom line: I don't want to pay $69 a year to keep the account, and will find another solution. The Obi obviates the need for much of what SipSorcery's dial plans accomplish. I rarely use my phone and will content myself with a cheap pay-as-you go outbound plan (while continuing to use a free Callcentric DID + GV forwarding for inbound).
UPDATE: Aaron emailed me this morning and reset my account to free. I may just need to make another donation to SipSorcery. Can't say enough good things about him and the service his site provides.
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